here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

Focus on your goals, if they make you happy then go for it!At times you may become depressed but keeping pushing forward, they're within reach!

Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to be there. I might as well have been at one place all my life.

We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.

With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.

All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future

All we can do is try not to fall.

I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way